A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Ex-CNN host Don Lemon arrested for Minnesota church invasion.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say.

They said detainees had been placed in secret lockups.

“They are arresting everyone,” one of the activists said. “No one knows where they are being taken or where they are being held. With these arrests and threats, they are trying to inject fear into society.”

Similar accounts were given to Reuters by lawyers, medics, witnesses, and two Iranian officials speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution by security services.

They said the roundups appeared aimed at preventing any serious revival of protests by spreading fear just as the clerical establishment faces rising external pressure.

Things might get exciting again soon, but who knows?

ROGER KIMBALL: The Deep State Vampire.

To get a preliminary sense of how deep and how entrenched the deep state is, consider the State of Virginia. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, did not control either house of the state legislature. Nevertheless, he managed to get immense reforms accomplished in his four years as governor. But the Dems didn’t mind, not really. Why? Because they knew they could instantly roll back Youngkin’s initiatives as soon as they retook the governorship.

That just happened. And it took Abigail Spanberger, the new Governor, about 15 minutes to return Virginia to la-la land. She had campaigned on “affordability” but rejoined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a climate-change scam that will raise everyone’s utility bills. She introduced a 3.8 percent “net investment tax” on individuals, trusts and estates. She stopped cooperating with ICE in deporting illegal aliens. She said abortion was A-OK, right up to the moment of birth (why stop there?). She reinstituted DEI programs throughout the government and the state’s educational system. She undid reforms to the state’s voting system, making it easier for Democrats to “massage” the vote tally. And that’s just the tip of the proverbial deep-state iceberg.

I write on the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s second term. He and his team have accomplished extraordinary things. He has sealed the southern border. He has deported or sparked the self-deportation of some two and a half million illegal aliens. He has vastly increased America’s production of energy, with the result that gas prices have plummeted. He has gone far in eradicating DEI initiatives in the federal government and in the country’s educational system. He decapitated the Maduro regime in Venezuela, undermining that country’s status as a haven for America’s enemies. He has trimmed the deficit by billions. His economic policies have sparked growth not seen in decades: 4.3 percent in the third quarter of last year and an estimated 5.3 percent in the fourth.

What happens next? Will some Spanberger appear to throw a spanner in the works? If the Republicans lose the House in the midterm elections, Trump will be impeached before you can say Kangaroo Court. Would he be convicted? Probably not. But you never know. Then there is 2028. Will the Republicans keep the White House? I think the odds are good, especially since many avenues of voter fraud have been shut down.

But if the last year has shown anything, it has shown how deep and interconnected the deep state’s tentacles are.

Indeed.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Protest Culture Is Annoying and Un-American.

GROW UP: ‘ICE Out’: Time *yawn* for Another Prog Tantrum.

IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE SHUT UP:

You can tell Bruce Springsteen is sincere in his disgust for ICE because here he is screaming at Barack Obama after the former President employed the exact same tactics Trump is using now pic.twitter.com/CCliIw6S26

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) January 30, 2026

The needs of the Party are subject to change, comrade.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: goPure Tighten & Lift Neck & Chest Moisturizer Cream. #CommissionEarned

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK: Mamdani Restricts ‘Gifted’ Student Program Despite Parental Advocate Objections.

ACADEMIA’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES: Former Harvard History Chairman Boasts of Transforming It From ‘White Male Affinity Group:’ Sidney Chalhoub pushes for Palestinian Studies, but department has no time for Western Civilization.

SALENA ZITO: Deluzio wants ICE reforms not defunding.

Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that he is not calling for the defunding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead, he wants to see reforms after the chaos surrounding their operations in Minneapolis became deadly.

Deluzio, a Navy veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who completed three deployments, including a tour in Iraq, said the reforms he wants included in a spending bill would focus on ending the detention and deportation of Americans and upholding the sanctity of judicial warrants.

“They’re common sense ones. And if you talk to local cops, they know that deescalation is a part of that,” he said, adding, “Deescalation is good policing, and that’s what we should expect out of our federal agents.”

His pragmatic approach is starkly different from the strident rhetoric made on the other end of the state by Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, who vowed to prosecute ICE agents at an “ICE OUT” press conference on Wednesday in front of City Hall.

Nationally though, Democrats seem to have become more the party of Krasner than Deluzio.

WELL, YEAH: Democrat Talarico: Billionaires Are Evil, Except When They’re Giving Me Money. “What are mere scruples when there’s all that sweet, sweet gambling money available to stuff into your campaign’s maw?”

REALCLEARSCIENCE: Fixing DEI’s Damage to Academic Science Could Take a Generation.

IT’S COMPLICATED:

To summarize: Carnegie Mellon took over $1 billion from Qatar and gave the Qatar Foundation a say in the hiring of their VP of DEI, and now the school is being sued by a Jewish student who says the VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint…yikes. https://t.co/71v1xgAVvv

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) January 29, 2026

Well, the headline is complicated. The reality is pretty simple: Qatar uses oil money and cunning to colonize the West.

EXCLUSIVE: On War-Pounded Border, Israeli Emergency Services and Samaritan’s Purse Build New Station.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  The Guardian Cycle, Vol.1: In Dreams and Other Stories.

#CommissionEarned

A man whose debts must be paid by vengeance. A woman desperate to save her husband. A grieving father finding a young enemy soldier on his veritable doorstep…

These fantasy and soft sci-fi stories wonder whether or not heroes need families. Are we not told that families slow the hero down? Is it not typically implied that they get in the way of the adventure? Are they a burden, or truly the greatest strength from which the hero and those he loves can draw?

Six tales in this collection center on family, faith, and self-sacrificing love as men and women fight for the ones whom they hold most dear. Whether the enemy is inner turmoil, a nightmare, or a demon really does not matter. If the threat seeks to harm a member of the family, it is going to pay dearly.

I MEANT TO POST THIS HERE BEFORE. MY PERMISSION FOR YOU TO BE A REAL AUTHOR:  The Velveteen Author.

OLD MAN BELIEVES TV BLATHER:  Bruce Springsteen’s New Song Sounds Suspiciously Like Cable News Chatter.

I’VE FOUND LINKED IN IS A SPAM TRAP ANYMORE:  LinkedIn Blames ‘Error’ After Removing Pro-ICE Post Over ‘Hateful Speech’.

MARCUS ANTONIUS RUBIO, FIRST OF HIS NAME:  Rubio runs rings…

I VERY MUCH HOPE THIS IS WRONG:  Artemis-2 proves NASA learned nothing from the Challenger and Columbia failures.

WELL AMAZON’S PROGRAM HAS BEEN SUPER-GLITCHY RECENTLY….  Insider report from Amazon layoffs sees only Americans laid off on his team in the past 2 RIFs. H-1Bs keep their jobs while Americans are laid off. How can that be possible? Fyi, these were the same level/experience engineers.

And for the x-cancelled.

I wonder how many of the programmers in the company still speak English.

THEY THINK THEMSELVES KINGS:  Widespread failure across nearly every level of leadership in Minnesota: Public programs fraud on the scale we see today— of which Ilhan Omar is Somali Fraud Exhibit A—indicates a leadership class that has either forgotten or no longer takes seriously the idea that public office is a public trust.

SOMEONE ON TWITTER SAID IF GABBARD IS INVOLVED THERE’S FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT: I couldn’t find that link as a follow on to this one.  Trump: You found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They did not get burned. Having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was.  Gabbard: I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected but you are right, we are finding documents literally tucked away…

And for the Exiles of X

THE ONLY THING SCARIER* THAN A “HELLO” FROM DATA REPUBLICAN IS A “TIC TOC” FROM DATA REPUBLICAN:  If you visit the StopICE license plate tracker, you will note all their plates have been overwritten with the following image:

And for the x-cancelled.

*Or more fun. For those of us who find discomfiting the left fun.

THE DCA CRASH AND OTHER INSIGHTS:  Quick Cold Update.